shambles

Meanings

Plural: shambles

Noun

a condition of great disorder
a building where animals are butchered
walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
A scene of great disorder or ruin.
A great mess or clutter.
A scene of bloodshed, carnage or devastation.
A slaughterhouse.
A butcher's shop.

Verb

walk by dragging one's feet
third-person singular simple present indicative of shamble

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English schamels, plural of schamel, from Old English sċeamol, sċamul (“bench, stool”), from Proto-West Germanic *skamul, *skamil (“stool, bench”), from Vulgar Latin scamellum, from Latin scamillum (“little bench, ridge”), from Latin scamnum (“bench, ridge, breadth of a field”).

Synonyms

abattoir, butchery, scuffle, shamble, shambling, shuffle, shuffling, slaughterhouse

Scrabble Score: 15

shambles is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
shambles is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
shambles is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 17

shambles is a valid Words With Friends word